Friday, March 8, 2013

Weekend Reflections is hosted
by James each week
beginning Friday
at 11 AM Eastern Standard
Time. It's another
wonderful way of opening
your eyes to new and
different kinds of
beauty. Click on the web
address under the blog title and
sign up to play with us!

Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to daybasis. Margaret Bonnano

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Time to share
your skies, the beauty over your
world, the
clouds, the colors! Sky
Watch is hosted each week
by the Sky Watch team led of Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia. And this week as every
week, we remember Klaus and know that he
joins us in spirit! Join us and
the many people from
all over the world who
share theirs with us
each week! http://skyley.blogspot.com/

The days may end, but the beauty has just begun!

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. John Templeton

Monday, March 4, 2013

Time for "Our World" again!
This is a wonderful way to find the
beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad
things about Our World and to share them! Hope
you will join us! Click on the link to
go to the Our World site and sign up!!

I guess that since I've been in Seattle the past six years, and once I got caught up in photography, one of the biggest parts of my world has been the skies and I do spend a lot of time looking up!! And in more ways than one! I know you see skies all the time on my blog, but here are some more and I hope you don't get tired of them! May all of you have a wonderful week -- lots of joy, laughter and beauty!!!

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. Montaigne

Hey guys, get up off your
tush and lets go see
Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai!
It's always a fun time when
we all get together and talk
about what's been happin',
Bro! You know? Get your
human to click on the Post
Title, that'll take them to the
website where you can sign up!
I'll be waiting for you!!

What Can I Say?

I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Stop Hate Starting Here

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellowPerhaps if the sun’s tears would singagainst a white stone....

Such, such a yellowIs carried lightly ’way up high.It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in herePenned up inside this ghetto.But I have found what I love here.The dandelions call to meAnd the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitzon Sept. 29, 1944.

Thank You, Anthony!!

Check out his blog and photos!

Chasing Ashes

I love to write and it has been a hobby for a long time. Mysteries were always my escape reading during some of the darker times of my life and I finally decided to give it a try. I've actually written seven over the years. Unfortunately, my last computer disaster resulted in my losing three of the latest four. I did manage to salvage this one.